From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 6 18:19:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles117.castles.com [208.214.165.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBF414BFF for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01052; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903070214.SAA01052@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ThinkPad In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:56:03 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:14:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To start with, does it have more than 64M of memory? At least some of the stinkpads have problems with our speculative memory probes. > My new employer provided me with a brand new ThinkPad 770X. Of course the > first thing I tried was to boot FreeBSD on it. No luck :( > > The symptoms are as follows: sometime during the probing, or even later if > I'm active enough pressing keys (see below) the machine hangs, and never > recovers. I suspect it's somehow related to energy saving features - > perhaps it just decides to go to sleep? Anyway, after this I'm totally > unable to reboot it. The funny thing is that ThinkPad doesn't have the > reset button, so I have to pull out the battery in order to reboot it... > :-) > > Perhaps someone already went through this, and can give me a hint... TIA. > Oh, BTW - the BIOS setup on this really sucks, it's a winblows oriented > dummy icons which really don't give you any control over the details. > > Andrzej Bialecki > > -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- > ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: > Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" > Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ > -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message